Father Marcial Maciel, founder of the Legionaries of Christ, and Enrique Amezcua Medina, founder of the priestly confraternity of the Laborers of the Kingdom of Christ, both met the young martyr, and are able to recount years later the heroism he exhibited.

"Then the skin of the soles of his feet was sheered off, and he was obliged to walk through the village towards the cemetery. He wept and moaned with pain, but would not give in."

"Hail to Christ the King!"

Father Maciel continued: "Every now and then they stopped and said: 'If you cry out "Death to Christ the King," we will spare your life. Say 'Death to Christ the King!' But he answered, 'Hail to Christ the King!'"

Father Maciel said that at the cemetery, "before shooting him, they asked him once more if he would deny his faith. He refused and was killed right then and there. He died crying out as many other Mexicans did: 'Hail to Christ the King!'

"These are indelible images of my memory and of the memory of the Mexican people, although often there is not much mention of it in the official history."

Father Medina, then 9 years old, said in the biography of the confraternity he founded that he considers providential his meeting with the young martyr.

He met the child-martyr of Sahuayo and asked him if he could follow him but, seeing that he was so young, the future martyr told him: "You will do things that I will not be able to do," which, eventually, led him to the priesthood.